In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.Herbert Spencer
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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